Footnotes and Bracketed Text

The editor of this and its companion volume has used square brackets to denote added material, including footnotes. The brackets occasionally are not closed. There are also several footnotes which are either missing in the text, or missing their numbers on the notes themselves. These have been corrected, based on the context and usage elsewhere.

p. 168. The footnote anchor for note 102 is missing. It normally would fall at the end of the letter to which it refers, and has been added there.

Punctuation

Punctuation is occasionally used inconsistently. Where these are minor (especially in the table of contents, footnotes, and the index), they have been silently corrected.

Letter 151 ends on p. 93 with a closing quote and attribution:

...of his motive"--Quoted from the _Gentleman's Magazine_ of June, 1838.

There is no corresponding opening quote, and one is not added here.

Ellipses are used (pp. 258, 262-263, 290), seemingly to elide a name. They have been reproduced as found there. There is also the phrase "when I... took me by surprise" which may well be a mistake for 'J...', which was used just above. The 'I' has been retained as printed.

Ellipses are used (pp. 258, 262–263, 290), to elide a name. They have been rendered as long dashes here. There is also the phrase “when I—— took me by surprise” which may well be a mistake for ‘J——’, which was used just above. The ‘I’ has been retained as printed.

The following special situations are noted:

p. 79	I did not set much value.[”]	Added missing closing quote.
p. 83	‘When shall we have Buonaparte?[”/’]	Corrected closing quote.
p. 115	was as favourable to the book as could be expected.[”]	Closing quote has no mate.
p. 133	Closing bracket of n1 is missing.	Added.
p. 134 n87	Make my best respects when you write.[87]	Added missing footnote number.
p. 308	An extended dash has been shortened here to ‘——’.
p. 322	tVol. I, p. 97.[—]The	Added to match style just above.

Spelling, hyphenation and typographical errors

There are also very occasional typographical errors that have been corrected. Any variants in spelling or hyphenation have been retained. Where the sole instance of a hyphenation occurs at end-of-line, modern usage has been applied.

p. 130	withou[t]	Added.
p. 329	Golden Book of Coleridge	Entire title should be in italics. Retained.